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Interesting take on Evagelicalism - could be pretty much on the mark

From the Christian Science Monitor: The coming evangelical collapse An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise. By Michael Spencer from the March 10, 2009 edition Oneida, Ky. - We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West. Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century. This collapse will herald the arrival of an anti-Christian chapter of the post-Christian West. Intolerance of Christianity will rise to levels many of us have not believed possib

David’s Heart

We recently read Psalm 139 in church and the last few verses of the psalm struck me in a way that they hadn’t before.  David asks our Creator to 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;        test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me,        and lead me in the way everlasting. David wants God to search him and know his heart.  His desire is to be completely and utterly transparent before God.  He invites God to find the offensive ways and to lead him the way everlasting.  It caused me to question my own heart.  Is my desire one of complete and utter transparency?  Do I want to be lead in the way everlasting?